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Check out the new features in the free update to the popular Blender UV editing toolset for games and visual effects work.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

Promising free Blender add-on generates rigged 3D characters with skin materials and hair, suitable for games, animation or VFX work.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

Use the powerful Content Browser from the Unreal Engine 5 world-building tool free indefinitely. Comes with thousands of free 3D assets.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

Check out the new features in the digital painting software for comics, illustrations and concept art, including the new Puppet Warp.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

AI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.

Friday, March 14th, 2025

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.

Tuesday, March 11th, 2025

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025